Dying Light is one of the best FPS Survival game, in an open world environment, that I've ever player!

I'm not going to do a full review, since I believe/hope that everyone of you knows already what I'm talking about. What Techland made here is an incredible work, developing and publishing a game that is capable to entertain you like not so many other games are capable to do.

After 3 years, game is still supported with another year of FREE dlcs, and even if the game isn't perfect, it looks soooo goooood compared to the other AAA games.

So thank you, Techland, for this. I hope to see you again for Dying Light 2.

Look, I know melee weapons are a thing and frankly I love my one handed blades that seem to bisect everything now....finally...after literally almost the entire time I have been playing (what kind of agent/mercinary did GRE pay for, the bargin basement ty...

I've finished Dying Light and the Following before and this is my 2nd or 3rd time playing this game. I love this game but this review is gunna be my honest thoughts. As always i'm gunna be staying away from spoilers. I'm gunna start off by saying

Dying Light is a masterpiece of the genre.

Story

Dying Light starts with a zombie outbreak in Harran and the city is sealed off from the outside world. You're Crane, whos hired by the GRE to get some stolen important document back which is in Harran (of course). With this basic plot the game starts and you start helping people while doing your job. First few hours of the story ain't anything special. But then as you slowly get to know new characters and the story goes deeper, it's just too good. The story is so good that you can just play the game for the story. But dying light has more things to offer.

Gameplay

Probably my favorite part of the game. Dying Light is a first person Action game with parkour being it's primary mechanics along with survival and weapon building mechanics like Dead Rising series. The parkour in this game works so fluidly. The character grabs and climbs exactly what you want him to. And the map is just perfect for the parkour they gave us. Unlike alot of zombie games, dying light is extremely hard if you don't think before doing something. Crafting and upgrading weapons as you go is must. Without proper weapons just killing a single normal zombie is gunna be hard for you.

Skill Trees There's 4 different skill trees. Survivor, Agility and Power. They basically make you stronger (duh). Then there's few essential skills like the Graple Hook. OH you need that!

Night Time Mechanics Now this takes the surviving to a whole new lvl. At night there's new type of enemies "volatile" if i remember correctly and they climb, run and kill faster than you. At night time any points you get are doubled so it's high risk high reward. I think this is one of the best mechanics in the game. Survival games needs this kind of system.

Quests

Instead of missions, the game has quests and they work like quests in any other game. You chose and do whenever you want. The quests are really good. Each quests feels different with you learning something different/more. Just an amazing design.

Side Quests This game has few of my favorite side quests. The stories they tell and the situations they put us in.. one of the reason i love this game so much. There's often time when you will forget about the main story and go for the side quests. Those are funny, tragic and amazing.

Characters

Perfect characters! From the protagonist to every side characters, this game develops perfectly. The villain is soo good. This game knows how to introduce characters and turn them in to few of your favorite characters. The characters are the reason you get on a ride of your life. I said before that it's funny, tragic and amazing, that's all because of the amazing characters this game has.

World Design

As i mentioned before, it's perfect. It's perfect for the parkour, the outbreak, the characters and the story itself. I love the world because how easy it's for you to do your parkour. If you're good at it, you don't have to touch the ground. And that wouldn't be possible without a great world building. I'm not sure how accurate the game world is with the real world tho. And the world is also alive. Such irony...

Graphics

The game looks really good even today. You won't get "great" views everywhere.. i mean there's a zombie outbreak lmao.. The rain visuals are too good. There's also option to make your game black and white, sepia and more options like this. You usually get this in the "photo mode' of various games. I'm not sure how you can use it on live game without performence issue or any restarting the game. The visuals plus the film grain gives a special experience.

SoundQuality/OST/VoiceActing

SoundQuality is really good. The weapon impact sounds are great imo. When you modify a weapon to give it electric effect or something else, the sound changes flawlessly. You just feel the weapon impacts. Then the amazing zombie sounds.. When the virals shout and the volatiles runs towards you, you just feel the fear.

OSTs are pretty good, But then again there's not a big collection.. But don't worry, you won't feel like it's repetitive.

VoiceActing is really good. The voice actors did a great job. Even the side quests characters voices are great.

Optimization

Back when i first played it, i had a 970 and i7 4790k and the game ran really good. I could max everything at 1080p and never drop under 60. I'm not sure if i had this back then but right now the game doesn't feel smooth to me. Even tho i get constant 100 ez all time with my 1080ti, the game feels like it's not smooth.. I checked few others and they are saying everyone is having stuttering issue. But this doesn't really effect me "that much".

Online

First i finished the entire game co-op with 3 other guys. You can finish the entire game Co-op (except the very last mission if i remember correctly). It's so fun playing the game co-op. If you have someone who wants to play some co-op then you're up for one hell of a ride. The game also has Be The Zombie mode where you can be zombie and hunt other players. It's pretty fun as well.

Controls

Keyboard and Mouse controls are best here IMO. Controls are accessable easily and responsive.

Controller controls isn't for me. Everything is fine except running. You have to click and hold the Left click to run which i'm really bad at.

Post Launch Support

I don't talk about this.. like ever. But even after 3 years of launch devs are constantly adding new things in the game. It also has Steam Workshop so the fun never ends! Just amazing!

Dying Light: The Following

This is better than the main game in every way IMO. You get a new map which is better. You get vehicles which the main game didn't have. New enemies, weapons, really good story and another amazing ride. This is a MUST!

Overall - 9.5

I love Dying Light. For me it's a masterpiece but not perfect "technically". Dying Light gave me a great gameplay experience and an amazing zombie game. The game has a great story with characters to make it even better. The facial animation isn't always accurate plus the stuttering i'm facing right now. But aside from these small problems, you will enjoy dying lights every second. Don't miss this game. The only bad thing is that the game is addicted af! It's worth every $. Full price? WORTH. Right now it's on sale. Take the enhanced edition. Best deal of your life.

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Gtx Geforce 1050ti 4gb.
Intel Core 5 3570cpu 3.5ghz
Disc hdd
8 gb vram.
But in the cutscene i have 30 max 50 fps, game crash after 10minutes from launch game and i have global + - 60-50fps.
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I have played this game years back, and beat the main story. I have not played the Following though, so I don't know a ton about it.
I am genuinly suprised to see so many people on this game still, and I am curious as to what activities there are to do ...

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